福克斯新闻 德州牛排馆总裁放弃自己薪酬为一线员工发薪(2)

So how do you get your restaurants back open and your people back to work? What is your forecast for when that might happen and how you might begin? You know, it's not gonna open overnight. How would that -- how does that look to you as a business owner? Three weeks ago, we were barely crawling along. We maybe had 10 percent of our workforce¹ working but we flipped² on a dime³, we took our dining room and put it into the parking lot. Now we do curbside, and now we do family packs, and we're actually selling ready-to-grill meat. And so now we're back up to over 50 percent employment in our stores and we're actually trying to get people to come back to work. That's great. That's a great plan. Now what about when it becomes possible to really put people back in the restaurants. What do you anticipate about how, you know, the mindset of people trying to get them to feel OK about going back to a restaurant, and sitting down and ordering dinner?

你是如何让餐厅恢复营业并让员工复工的呢？你预测这件事何时会发生，以及你如何开始做呢？不是一夜之间就能开张的。作为一个老板，你觉得这看起来怎么样？3周前，我们进展缓慢。可能只有10%的员工在上班，我们在赌，我们把停车场当成了餐厅。我们有路边点餐服务，现在我们还推出了家庭套餐，我们正在卖即食烤肉。现在我们店内有超过50%的员工到岗，我们也正在让员工返岗。这是个很不错的计划。那什么时候才能让顾客到餐馆就餐呢。你预计人们什么时候觉得可以回到餐厅坐下点餐呢？

Will probably start out I'm guessing with people in every other booth. We are actually creating, as it would be like a sneeze guards to put around the booth so people know that the air they are breathing is staying within their booth and we will still offer curbside to go and family packs at that point as well. Wow. What's your message to sort of the other restaurant owners and CEOs out there across America, because they are in a very tough situation right now. You've just got to let your people think on their own. You've got to be entrepreneurial, and they will figure it out and we are gonna serve America and we're gonna also take care of our people. Good for you. You're doing some innovative⁴ things and I'm glad it's working and hanging in there and we look forward to going to your place at some point real soon. Thank you very much, Kent Taylor. Absolutely. Good to see you tonight. All right.

可能马上就会隔位就坐了。我们正在餐桌周围设置透明板罩，这样的话，顾客知道他们呼吸的是自己座位附近的空气，我们还提供路边点餐服务和家庭套餐。哇。你有什么建议可以给美国其他餐厅老板和总裁吗，因为他们现在的境况很艰难。你应该让自己的员工想想。你应该有企业家精神，他们会想出办法来的，我们要为全美国服务，我们也要照顾好我们的员工。我为你感到高兴，你在做一些创新的事情，我很高兴这能够奏效，我们期待很快能去你的餐馆就餐。非常感谢你，肯特·泰勒。嗯。今晚很高兴见到你。好。

1 workforce   

n.劳动大军，劳动力

参考例句：

• A large part of the workforce is employed in agriculture.劳动人口中一大部分受雇于农业。
• A quarter of the local workforce is unemployed.本地劳动力中有四分之一失业。

2 flipped   

轻弹( flip的过去式和过去分词 )； 按（开关）； 快速翻转； 急挥

参考例句：

• The plane flipped and crashed. 飞机猛地翻转，撞毁了。
• The carter flipped at the horse with his whip. 赶大车的人扬鞭朝着马轻轻地抽打。

3 dime   

n.（指美国、加拿大的钱币）一角

参考例句：

• A dime is a tenth of a dollar.一角银币是十分之一美元。
• The liberty torch is on the back of the dime.自由火炬在一角硬币的反面。

4 innovative   

adj.革新的，新颖的，富有革新精神的

参考例句：

• Discover an innovative way of marketing.发现一个创新的营销方式。
• He was one of the most creative and innovative engineers of his generation.他是他那代人当中最富创造性与革新精神的工程师之一。